How To Install Wine Staging 2.4 On Ubuntu And Derivative Systems

As you may know, Wine Staging is a special version of Wine that provides support for projects like Pipelight. The Pipelight developer forked wine into wine-staging and included some Pipelight-specific enhancements and some other features not present in the regular wine software.

Among others, it brings support for Nvidia graphics cards with support for CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT to improve graphics performance and a few others.

The latest version available is Wine Staging 2.4, which has been recently released, :

What’s new in this release:

Implementation of more System/Process/Thread information classes and values.

More complete object type implementation.

Improved GDI+ scaling performance.

Various smaller improvements.

In addition, Wine Staging users will also benefit from the following changes merged in the development branch:

Mono engine updated with upstream fixes.

More Direct3D command stream work.

Simulated bold and italic in DirectWrite.

Improvements to the XML reader.

Various bug fixes.

Installation instructions:

Up to date Wine Staging packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is easy. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine-staging package: